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High · 8.8 CVE-2026-55578 EUVD-2026-49386GHSA-wg4w-wr5q-6vjc

Pheditor: Incomplete command sanitization in terminal feature allows RCE via pipe operator, backtick substitution, and newline injection

Published Jul 27, 2026 · Updated Jul 28, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Pheditor is a single-file editor and file manager written in PHP. From version 2.0.1 to before version 2.0.6, the terminal feature in Pheditor uses an incomplete character blocklist to sanitize user-supplied commands before passing them to shell_exec(). After the fix for GHSA-9643-6xjp-vx57 (which added $ to the blocklist), the characters | (single pipe), ` (backtick), and the newline byte (0x0A) remain unblocked. An authenticated user with the terminal permission (enabled by default) can leverage any of these to bypass the TERMINAL_COMMANDS allowlist and execute arbitrary OS commands as the web server user. This issue has been patched in version 2.0.6.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
pheditor pheditor >= 2.0.1, < 2.0.6 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Packagist pheditor/pheditor >= 2.0.1, < 2.0.6 2.0.6 GHSA-wg4w-wr5q-6vjc

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